- Title: Slovenia's parliament approves a new centre-left government
- Date: 1st June 2022
- Summary: LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA (JUNE 1, 2022) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VOTING IN PROGRESS IN PARLIAMENT NEW MINISTERS ARRIVING IN PARLIAMENT, LAWMAKERS APPLAUDING MINISTERS SEATED IN PARLIAMENT PHOTOGRAPHER TAKING PICTURE NEWLY APPOINTED FINANCE MINISTER KLEMEN BOSTJANCIC SIGNING PAPERS, INCOMING PRIME MINISTER ROBERT GOLOB STANDING BESIDE HIM VARIOUS OF NEW GOVERNMENT POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS (SOUNDBITE) (Slovenian) SLOVENIAN PRIME MINISTER, ROBERT GOLOB, SAYING: "I would also like to express my great joy and pride in my and our government, the 15th government of the Republic of Slovenia. One of things I already said today is that this government is unique, unique in that it includes the diversity and richness of our country. With diversity, we have a large number of female ministers, the largest to date, now we have people from different backgrounds from all over Slovenia, and we combine political experience as well as fresh professional knowledge in order to really bring a better future to Slovenia." PHOTOGRAPHER TAKING PICTURE VARIOUS OF MINISTERS TOASTING OUTGOING PRIME MINISTER JANEZ JANSA AND GOLOB ENTERING ROOM IN PRESIDENTIAL PALACE JANSA AND GOLOB SHAKING HANDS MEDIA JANSA SPEAKING TO MEDIA JANSA HANDING OVER GOVERNMENT REPORT TO GOLOB JANSA AND GOLOB LEAVING
- Embargoed: 15th June 2022 22:30
- Keywords: Janez Jansa Slovenia Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob centre-left new government parliament
- Location: LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
- City: LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
- Country: Slovenia
- Topics: Europe,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA001219201062022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Slovenia's lawmakers approved a new centre-left government on Wednesday (June 1) of Prime Minister Robert Golob, who leads a new party and replaced populist premier Janez Jansa promising to make people proud.
Fifty-three deputies in the 90-member parliament endorsed a government comprised of ministers from Golob's Freedom Movement party, Social Democrats and the Left, who formed a majority coalition after a national election last month in which Freedom Movement beat Jansa's SDS.
Twenty-eight MPs voted against.
Golob, a former executive of a state-owned energy company, said that his 17-minister government will include experienced politicians and experts of whom seven will be women, the highest number in a government yet.
He said priorities of the new government will be to improve the health and welfare systems, depoliticize the police, focus on green energy and increase media freedoms, among others.
The government includes former prime minister Marjan Sarec who will now serve as defence minister, and EU parliament member Tanja Fajon who is confirmed as foreign minister.
Fajon has said that she would rather see Slovenia getting closer to "core EU countries" such as Germany, France and Italy than with countries of the Visegrad Group, an alliance of Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, which was preferred by former premier Jansa.
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